DY: Of course I do. That’s the part where I say it’s irrelevant if it happened or not. Chazal say it, so as far as we’re concerned we treat it like reality.
ROB: Yes, but you are backwards. You can say the story was allegorical as long as you keep the lesson. You are throwing out the lesson but keeping the story. That, without a doubt, falls under Mach’chish Magideha.